Make Mousey The Junkbot

This weekend, scavenge up some spare parts or order the kit from solarbotics.com and make Mousey the Junkbot! Mousey is a little light seeking robot housed in a computer mouse that will motor around your house and when it bumps into things, itll reverse for a few seconds before scurrying away. I learned a few things about making robots while making Mousey. The first thing is to only use solid core wire on the whiskers/eyes! I used it all through it and solid core wire doesnt flex very well and kept snapping my connections when I closed the housing. I also mixed up the eye-stalks and my light seeking robot became a light avoiding robot! It was easy to switch them back. I met Gareth Branwyn at Maker Faire where he was giving workshops on how to make Mousey. What follows is his article about how to make Mousey the Junkbot from Make: Volume 2. You can see what Gareth is up to at his site streettech.com.

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